Johnson Newlon Camden (March 6, 1828 – April 25, 1908) was a prominent oilman, industrialist, banker, railroad tycoon, and politician who was estimated to be worth $25 million at the time of his unexpected death.

Their uncle, Judge Gideon D. Camden of Harrison County, resigned his judicial position as the Civil War began and declined to become a delegate to the Confederate Congress and later became a West Virginia state senator.

Johnson N. Camden attended school in Sutton and at age 14 apprenticed with his uncle Gideon, who was then an assistant county clerk in Weston.

[3] In 1846, Johnson Camden won an appointment as a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point while his father represented Braxton, Lewis and Gilmer counties in the Virginia House of Delegates for a single term (1845–46).

[5] Camden sympathized with the Union and did not serve in either army during the American Civil War, although CSA General Stonewall Jackson had been raised nearby.

Camden became president of the First National Bank of Parkersburg at its organization in 1862, and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of West Virginia in 1868 and again in 1872.

Camden died in Baltimore, Maryland, en route back to Weston, West Virginia, after visiting family.